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Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture by Jeffrey Shandler bilingual Brooks then went on toAdventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the